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Magic AI Secures $117M to Build an AI Software Engineer

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Re: Magic AI Secures $117M to Build an AI Software Engineer

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Post by calvinmorrison »

HPsquared wrote: post #18
caesil wrote: post #2

Maybe I'm naive, but I just don't feel threatened by this at all. As a software engineer, I'd love to have an AI engineer automate the boring stuff so I can work on higher-level architecture concerns.

You're already "inside". The danger with automation is that it can pull up the ladder of developing junior talent on nuts-and-bolts, especially if these platforms aren't accessible to students and small-time developers.

Architecture doesn't matter anymore. I can have the AI do general purpose computing. Who cares if its slow? Integration work between two systems? Why bother writing APIs when my robot can spawn 1000 tabs and do manual data entry. Eventually they can just speak English to each other

Re: Magic AI Secures $117M to Build an AI Software Engineer

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Post by highwaylights »

htrp wrote: post #21

2022 founded 145mn raised to date. No demo at all.

I’m not saying they’re not vapour, but the article does mention a series of closed door demos and thousands of GPUs deployed, so it at least appears that someone has seen something.

Re: Magic AI Secures $117M to Build an AI Software Engineer

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Post by cosmodisk »

caesil wrote: post #2

Maybe I'm naive, but I just don't feel threatened by this at all. As a software engineer, I'd love to have an AI engineer automate the boring stuff so I can work on higher-level architecture concerns.

Even without any AI, every senior I know( 10+ years of experience) is pretty much trying to shift to architect or similar position and sees day to day programming almost on the same level as sweeping floors. I appreciate this may not be the case in shops doing something truly unique,but in an average CRED app world, this will happen much sooner than a lot of people might think.

Re: Magic AI Secures $117M to Build an AI Software Engineer

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Post by calvinmorrison »

tarruda wrote: post #20
x86x87 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This brings a very interesting question: if you could have an AI software engineer today but it would cost you 1 trillion dollars, would you want and be able to afford it? There is a reason why we still have people working at McDonald's even though fully automating it has been possible for a couple of decades now.

> cost you 1 trillion dollars How did you come up with this number? It seems pretty unrealistic. > There is a reason why we still have people working at McDonald's even though fully automating it has been possible for a couple of decades now. Maybe the low salary is the reason? If it is a bit more costly to automate certain aspects of manual labor, then the low salaries might remove the incentive to do so. This is no…

Aw look, hn is reinventing capitalism from first principles!

Re: Magic AI Secures $117M to Build an AI Software Engineer

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Post by karolist »

x86x87 wrote: post #13
darth_avocado wrote: post #9

Just wait till the AI has to update npm packages. I think I’m safe.

Just wait until ai invents its own npm that people are no longer able to understand. Good luck with that.

Some say that node_modules directory is the heaviest object in the universe. All we know it's called the Node JS.

Re: Magic AI Secures $117M to Build an AI Software Engineer

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Post by toomuchtodo »

highwaylights wrote: post #33
htrp wrote: post #21

2022 founded 145mn raised to date. No demo at all.

I’m not saying they’re not vapour, but the article does mention a series of closed door demos and thousands of GPUs deployed, so it at least appears that someone has seen something .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Leap

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Healthy skepticism is pragmatic. Sequoia and FTX comes to mind as well. Don't assume an adult was in the room doing due diligence.

Re: Magic AI Secures $117M to Build an AI Software Engineer

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Post by tarruda »

pton_xd wrote: post #24
bearjaws wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wasn't worried until Google showed up with a 1M token context with 99.9% recall...

GPT4, as smart and impressive as it is, starts forgetting or confusing key instructions with as few as 500 tokens (in my experimentation). Practically speaking the advertised 32k context window could be a few orders of magnitude smaller depending on what you're asking it to do!

Did you see the Gemini 1.5 1M token demo? They upload the three.js library and ask it to make changes, which it does successfully and pretty quickly.

I want LLMs to fail at my profession as much as everyone at risk of losing their jobs, but unless Google is lying, things are looking pretty grim.

https://youtu.be/SSnsmqIj1MI?si=N0zYY_Zbbfz3KRWK

Re: Magic AI Secures $117M to Build an AI Software Engineer

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Post by ponector »

caesil wrote: post #2

Maybe I'm naive, but I just don't feel threatened by this at all. As a software engineer, I'd love to have an AI engineer automate the boring stuff so I can work on higher-level architecture concerns.

It looks like with ai tools there will be less demand for engineers. For example, instead of keeping 300k people around, Google will replace 200k of them with ai-engineer ai-coder ai-tester.

Can you imagine how depressing it will be to your market salary?

Re: Magic AI Secures $117M to Build an AI Software Engineer

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Post by highwaylights »

kypro wrote: post #6
caesil wrote: post #2

Maybe I'm naive, but I just don't feel threatened by this at all. As a software engineer, I'd love to have an AI engineer automate the boring stuff so I can work on higher-level architecture concerns.

How many architecture does a company need? Realistically if they succeed you'll be unemployed.

I mean, yes, but also management is a wayyy less skilled job that’s far easier to automate. That goes away shortly after we get a competent AI engineer.

Business analysts are also incredibly vulnerable - why have a middle man if the machine understands your requirements in English/French/whatever?

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